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What a beautiful looking app! I really like the style (ie. incorporating the typical window decorations into the app window).

S. Murphy

I disagree. The free web apps are what brought me over. It will bring more people over just like with the Play store for Android. In this case I’m going to stick to listening to music from my sd card, its still simpler and I diminish the interface anyway.

Sean Lumly

You misunderstand me. It’s not that the store is bad because there are free apps in it, it’s that the store is bad because it is full of junk and hasn’t persuaded developers that would otherwise create apps that they can sell. Free apps are great, as is the free-to-play model, and I’m glad that they are available via the CWS (just as I am glad that they are available via Play). But the general quality of apps on the Chrome Web Store are sorely lacking and have been since the beginning.

Roger Siegenthaler

Well I suspect they’ll be integrating the Chrome Web Store into Google Play soon enough seeing as Google Play doesn’t actually have much to do with Android anymore (apart from the Apps section) which would bring all the goodies of in-app purchases and monetization with it :).

Sean Lumly

I hope this is the case as well. It would also be interesting if there was a cross-over for apps that support both platforms in a single code-base (eg. packaged apps).

Roger Siegenthaler

Well maybe not even in a single code base but provide packages for both systems :).

Sean Lumly

Why not a single code base? After all, Chrome packaged apps work on windows, right? Why not Android?

Sure they wouldn’t be as fast as native, but for many apps, they wouldn’t need to be (the classic Chrome vs native argument), and mobile CPUs are remarkably fast these days: chips as fast as the Samsung Chromebook will be available in nearly all modern phones by the end of this year, and next year they will be even faster!

Roger Siegenthaler

Because Chrome packaged apps work by running their code in a normal chrome window minus the controls, you can’t cross reference code like that in android afaik.

Sean Lumly

Chrome is the default browser for Android and will become the default renderer for web instances in other apps. So yes, a packaged app could conceivably run the exact same way on Android as it does in Windows (ie. a chrome instance without the controls).

Phil Oakley

They have an ‘Android apps’ section on the Play Store now, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine a ‘Chrome apps’ section too. Although I’d only want Chrome packaged apps in the Play Store – not the extensions and links to websites as well.

Kaitlyn

how in the world do you get this thing to work?
I don’t get it. Sorry, but how do you install the music?
I would like to install some rock, alternative, and some pop music, yet I don’t know how? What is the process, thanks!